Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.

Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have recently cured cancer, yet there is but little ripple in the news or on TV. It is a simple technique using a very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders, so there is no concern of side effects or other long term effects.

The drug doesnt require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.

Canadian scientists tested dichloroacetate (DCA) on human cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, but why are the major drug companies not involved, or the media not interested in this find?

In human cells there is a natural cancer fighting organelle, the mitochondria, but it needs to be triggered in order to be effective. Scientists used to think that the mitochondria of cancerous cells were damaged and thus ineffective. They used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in fighting cancer and wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on the glycolysis method to fight cancer. DCA treatment on the other hand doesnt rely on glycolysis but instead on reactivating the mitochondria; which allows the cell to die and preventing the cancer from spreading.

This reactivation is a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that cannot be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again allow them to die.

With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesnt break down and seed new tumors.

Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, and without a patent they cannot make money. Theyre currently making fortunes with their AIDS patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies wont develop DCA drugs, independent laboratories should start researching DCA more to confirm all of the above findings and begin producing drugs. All of the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.

This article hopes to raise more awareness of dichloroacetate, and to hopefully inspire some independent companies and small startups to pick up on this idea and begin producing life-saving drugs because the big companies wont be touching it for a long time.

Arteminsinin paired with doxorubicin has shown a lot of promise, as far as triggering apoptosis targeted to tumors.

The other therapy I mentioned is anti-angiogenic, depriving tumors of new blood supply by preventing the formation of new capillaries, etc. to the tumor. This is accomplished with a regimen of tetrathiomolybdate, which is faster acting and more stable than zinc, but which can also be used for the same purpose.

Arteminsinin paired with doxorubicin has shown a lot of promise, as far as triggering apoptosis targeted to tumors.

The other therapy I mentioned is anti-angiogenic, depriving tumors of new blood supply by preventing the formation of new capillaries, etc. to the tumor. This is accomplished with a regimen of tetrathiomolybdate, which is faster acting and more stable than zinc, but which can also be used for the same purpose.

A true cure for cancer lies with fhu.com and the Be Still excercise. Many have already been cured...this is because cancer is a spiritual disease, one that is caused by an out of control but suppressed irritable state. Scientist, as often is the case, are barking up the wrong tree.

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posted on 03/20/2012 8:13:04 PM PDT
by fabian
(" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")

That was a different time and place. The world wasn't as populated and litigative as it is now. We're on the downward side of this current civilization. Perhaps millenia from now our predecessors will come up with the answers that eluded us.

I suspect the “cure” for cancer will be genetic, it’ll be multi-variant, therefore semi-customized for the individual patient, and will involve either repairing individual genes or using genes from another species. There’s a lot of work going on along these lines, and some has reversed genetically inherited diseases. I don’t think “simple or easy” is a realistic possibility.

As far as the meme about drug company profits goes, even the most common substance has to be carefully administered and monitored, the disease has to be accurately diagnosed, and the patient has to be followed up for relapses. All of those activites generate revenue for the medical profession, so the profit of drug companies is not the sole market force involved. They’ll provide whatever substance is required, in much the same way as they’ve continued to provide Claritin since it went off prescription.

Treatment of cancer has advanced a great deal since my introduction to it via a loved one, and later on with a beloved dog. “Alternative” therapies are being researched and tested now, unlike then. There’s a place for both conventional medical science and herbal treatments, as well as dietary supplements.

I distrust genetic manipulation, maybe it’s a poor bias akin to the closed mindedness I encountered trying to help those I loved in any way possible back then, but I do. Some individuals inherit a propensity to develop certain cancers, true, but most of it is just cells gone wrong and not destroyed by the body’s natural defenses in time.

Live long enough, and you’ll develop cancer. It’s almost an inevitability.

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